Carotid artery intima-media thickness in college students: Race/ethnicity matters

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 441-446

  Breton, Carrie V ^a   Wang, Xinhui ^a   Mack, Wendy J ^a,b   Berhane, Kiros ^a   Lopez, Milena ^a   Islam, Talat S ^a   Feng, Mei ^b   Hodis, Howard N ^a,b   Künzli, Nino ^c,d   Avol, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CIMT; Ethnicity; Race; SBP; Young adults

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HOMOCYSTEINE; INSULIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATHEROGENESIS; B SCAN; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CALIFORNIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960697910     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.05.022     Document Type: Article

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